Last Friday was the first anniversary of the passage of Rotimi Akeredolu, ex-Ondo State governor. It was also the first anniversary of his successor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, in office. We thus must be grateful to Aiyedatiwa for immortalising Akeredolu, famously known as Aketi that same day. Aketi was an ecumenical spirit – borrowing from Wole Soyinka’s burial oration for Chief Bola …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, joined President Bola Tinubu, represented by his Vice, Senator Kashim Shettima, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume; Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa and other eminent Nigerians to attend the funeral service of the immediate past Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The …

I had met Aketi (Rotimi Akeredolu) early in my legal career. I didn’t have the privilege of meeting him before I was called to bar and as a lawyer. I first encountered him as young lawyer when he contested and was elected Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). From thence I admired him from a distance. He was …

The Ondo State Government has declared Thursday, 22 February and Friday, 23 February, as public holidays to honour the late former governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu. Akeredolu, who died on 27 December in a German hospital during a protracted illness, is scheduled to be buried on Friday in Owo, his hometown. In a statement on Tuesday, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s Chief Press …

Today, I yield this space to a bosom friend of mine, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, the immediate past Vice-Chancellor (2017 – 2022) of my alma mater, the University of Ife, GREAT IFE! (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife). Titled, Requiem for Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, Ogunbodede’s reminiscences on the late governor of Ondo State are as moving as they contain a lot …

The late former Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, will be buried in his Owo hometown on 23 February 2024, the family said on Monday. Akeredolu passed away on 27 December 2023, in Germany after a protracted battle with prostate cancer. He was aged 67. In a statement on Monday by the son of the deceased, Rotimi Akeredolu Jnr., the family …

Nigerian politics over time has been flavoured by branding, the affixing of monilkers, sobriquets and aliases to major players across seasons. Iconic figures like Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo; Busari Adelakun; Bola Ige; Abubakar Olusola Saraki; Olusegun Obasanjo, to mention a few assumed novel hues in the political and public sphere arising from such rechristening. Awolowo, the scholar, philosopher, visionary and statesman …

For the Algerian journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist, Albert Camus, life is meaningless and absurd. To him, it is inexplicable why we live, struggle all through and die. The meaninglessness of life is explained in his book The Myth of Sisyphus where he captures the absurdity of the …

Oorun ni n gba t’owo omode Iku ni n bo bata l’ese Rago Ko sohun t’o ni’bere ti kii l’opin Bee si ni ko si ohun ti a n je l’enu ti kii tan Afi ola Olorun Eleduwa/Igba o lo bi orere Aiye o lo bi opa ibon Bi oni ti ri, ola o ri be L’o mu Babalawo d’Ifa …

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dr. Dele Alake has described the late Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, as an irrepressible fighter and courageous defender of the people. Reacting to the demise of Akeredolu (popularly known as Aketi), Alake stated that Ondo State has lost a gem and a quintessential progressive who is always at the forefront of …